tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post7716803422891119604..comments2023-03-24T02:47:36.198-07:00Comments on The Goddess & The Open Book Test: Approaching Winter Solstice from a Mystery TraditionNormandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09963184583408795293noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-7144393622464497992010-12-04T21:20:08.377-08:002010-12-04T21:20:08.377-08:00Thank you for the timely writing. Losing my Mother...Thank you for the timely writing. Losing my Mother five years ago was the beginning of a significant cycle, just now yielding anew. She loved life yet left smiling. In a very personal way I have ‘wandered’ for five years and just recently feel the uplift of something very powerful. <br /><br />I am experiencing one of the great mysteries of living.<br /><br />"If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough—sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality." Marie-Louise von Franz<br /><br />PhillipPhilliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02327281327988214372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3892841520396612453.post-72513984912468315162010-12-03T06:34:16.200-08:002010-12-03T06:34:16.200-08:00The first paragraph describes this voice in my hea...The first paragraph describes this voice in my head that has consumed my very existence for a couple years now. I didn't know what it was at first but I'm fully cognizant of who and what it is now. I've read of great battles between Horus and Set and realized these stories are about me. When I despair I am not lost because Isis is always there to pull me out of the hole I have fallen into it.<br /><br />This great knowledge has been preserved in the Bible though I tend to treat modern day practitioners of Christianity with disdain:<br /><br />Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. <br /> - (Matthew 7:14 KJV)<br /><br /><br />" 'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'<br /> – (Luke 15:31-32, NIV)<br /><br />I treat the coming celebrations of Christmas, Hanukkah and old pagan celebrations of Saturnalia and Neith's great festival of light with happiness knowing that although the names have changed the spark still remains within humanity to be lit again. The great Light has blessed me and symbolically it re-emerges this time of the year and for that I'm grateful.<br /><br />Thanks for this,<br />PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com